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Generalized r-Modes of the Maclaurin Spheroids

arXiv:gr-qc/9807049 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.59.044009

Abstract

Analytical solutions are presented for a class of generalized r-modes of rigidly rotating uniform density stars---the Maclaurin spheroids---with arbitrary values of the angular velocity. Our analysis is based on the work of Bryan; however, we derive the solutions using slightly different coordinates that give purely real representations of the r-modes. The class of generalized r-modes is much larger than the previously studied `classical' r-modes. In particular, for each l and m we find l-m (or l-1 for the m=0 case) distinct r-modes. Many of these previously unstudied r-modes (about 30% of those examined) are subject to a secular instability driven by gravitational radiation. The eigenfunctions of the `classical' r-modes, the l=m+1 case here, are found to have particularly simple analytical representations. These r-modes provide an interesting mathematical example of solutions to a hyperbolic eigenvalue problem.

12 pages, 3 figures; minor changes and additions as will appear in the version to be published in Physical Review D, January 1999

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